Watching Brief – March 2024

Reflections

I have been thinking about making some changes and below I outline my plans.

Time flies….

This web site has now been fully up and running for 6 years.  For subscribers, it includes 101 permanent articles and 447 blog posts.   It now represents a fairly significant reference resource and although it is essentially updated now by a rolling blog, the WordPress search facility is usually good enough to access several articles on a range of topics that might be of interest to retail investors. 

A small element of the content is not 100% up to date and at some stage I will do some weeding and a bit of update editing, but I don’t think there is anything that could be misleading. 

I myself often refer back to posts I wrote 12 months or 24 months ago and am proud to say that I get more right than wrong when looking forward and I am also satisfied that I regularly repeat the ‘golden rules’ that investors ought to always bear in mind. 

Here are just a couple of examples of content that I think is ‘evergreen’.  Some newer subscribers may come to these posts for the first time.

• The article on the site ‘10+ top tips for investors’ (under the Real World tab/menu) might even be worth copying to a document file and printing as an aide-memoire!
• If you like fables with a little satirical humour, you might find my story about market timing called ‘A fable for investors’ which I wrote in March 2020 to be an amusing if slightly testing read over a cup of coffee.  Those of you who were able to buy assets from cash reserves in the dark days of 2022 will recognise who you are in the family of 6 very different people featured in the tale.